Bianca Peters
Until November 2014 Bianca Peters has been a senior management consultant at the consultancy firm Twynstra Gudde, mainly active in the field of water management. Her assignments vary from international and national to regional water related issues. Furthermore, she has experience with big infrastructural projects, such as development of Main Port Rotterdam, deepening of the Western Scheldt navigation channel and Room for the River. Bianca is also active in policy projects, like the implementation of European Directives, and policy evaluation processes.
In recent years Bianca has been particularly active stimulating and organizing collaboration between various parties, especially in public partnerships. Result-oriented (international) collaboration is becoming increasingly important with respect to implementing EU guidelines, building international knowledge networks, knowledge management and innovation programs. Her knowledge of water issues is extensive; she has the know-how required for policy making, management, sound advice and activities across cultures to help solve water problems.
Working experience
| November 2014- present | Deltares, Environmental Hydrodynamics at the Marine and Coastal Systems Unit | Department Head |
| January 2007–November 2014 | Twynstra Gudde consultants and managers | Senior consultant |
| October 2004–December 2006 | Projectleader | Rijksinstituut voor Kust en Zee/RIKZ (State institute for Coast and Sea), The Hague |
| June 2001-October 2004 | State institute for Coast and Sea in Middelburg | Project leader civil engineering/morphology |
| March–June 2001 | the University of Twente | Junior researcher , investigation into the significance of models in decision-making processes |
| 2000 | the University of Twente | Graduated, majoring in Civil Engineering and Management. |
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International network flood barrier managers- I-STORM
Russia, 2007-2014
International
Coordinator international network for knowledge exchange on management and maintenance of flood barriers. For the Netherlands the Department of Transport and Waterways and the Groot-Salland Water board participate in this network. Other participants were the Environment Agency (UK), Consorzio Venezia Nuova and Magistrato del Acqua (Italy) and the federal government/Rosstroy
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Strategy development for the “Unie van Waterschappen” (= Water board Association
the Netherlands, 2008-2009
Consultant for a future strategy for water boards
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Strategy development for the waterboard Rijnland and Hollands Noorderkwartier for future options to organize the waste water task
the Netherlands, 2014
Consultant for a future strategy
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ProSes 2010
the Netherlands, 2011-2012
Process supervisor/chair person expert committee for a new monitoring programme Western Scheldt and Lower Sea Scheldt (e.g. KRW and VHR monitoring obligations)
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Evaluation closing level Maeslantkering (= Maeslant flood barrier)
the Netherlands, 2009
Process consultant; purpose of this evaluation was a possible reconsideration of the Maeslantkering’s closing level, based on change of interests (ports, shipping traffic, areas outside the dikes)
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Programme board Room for the River
the Netherlands, 2007-2008
Manager implementation Risk management for programme board 2007-2008.
Planning and implementation of a risk management system Room for the River; amongst other things quality check risk reports from initiators (provinces and water board)
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Large-scale sand extraction offshore: What could be the results of interaction between model and decision process?
2006
Peters, B. G. T. M. and Hulscher, S. J. M. H. Ocean and Coastal Management-juni 2006, Elsevier -
Nominated for the KivI thesis contest Technique, Society and Economics
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Large-scale sand extraction offshore: interacting between model and decision process
2001
Peters, B. G. T. M., Hulscher, S. J. M. H. and Roos, P. C., In FOMAR.-Congreso International Cienca Y Technologia Marina,
April 24-27th, Spain
Activities
| 2006 - 2014 | Member | Steering committee of I-STORM, www.I-STORM.org. |
| 2008-2009 | Visiting lecturer | Vrije Universiteit, Culture organization & Management, on network building and communities of practice |
| 2005-2008 | Member | User committee Ph D student S. Hommes, University of Twente, for his thesis “Decision-making processes for complex water management problems” (2005-2008). |